Quotes About Abandonment

A pain was gnawing in my chest. I pressed my hands to it, the hollows and hard bones. I sat before my loom and felt at last like the creature Medea had named me: old and abandoned and alone, spiritless and gray as the rocks themselves.

I came for her, but there was no one who would come for me. The thought was steadying. After all, I had been alone my whole life.

To be utterly alone. What worse punishment could there be…

What is that if not a bad life? Luring others to you, then turning from them?

When we abandon ourselves to love, we find ourselves closer to the one who is always doing that Himself. We find God.

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

a metaphysical sense of being marooned

Rejection, judgment, and abandonment are most painful because deep inside her unconscious she holds the incorrect belief that she is unworthy of receiving more.

forgotten by the world and by those you love

I was hurting, too. How could she have done such a terrible thing? She was my friend. She treated me like a confidant, and she protected me like a big sister. I loved Tally, and now she had run off with a vicious killer.

The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard.

Even the Catholics deserted Mary in her hour of need.

you will understand why I say to you: sell the Hall unseen, burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there.

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

We would note that ruins don't change a lot: what capacity for change is in a ruin has usually been exhausted in the considerable process of change undergone in order for the ruin to become a ruin. Once becoming a ruin, a ruin stays pretty much the same.

Non vi sono scuse per la crudeltà, ma - in un orfanotrofio - forse si è obbligati a negare amore; se non riesce a negare amore, a trattenerti dall'amare, creerai un orfanotrofio che nessun orfano lascerà volentieri. Creerai un Homer Wells: cioè un vero orfano, dato che la sua casa sarà sempre a St. Clouds.

Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin.

From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

For whatever reason, loving someone gives you purpose. It fills you with hope, joy and a sense of optimism. But when that person leaves you; abandons your love without warning, what do you do? You are left in love, alone and desperate to feel that sense of belonging and worth again.

Sometimes we give all our love trust and time to someone whom we thought would stay with us yet they left you with a broken heart, broke your dreams and tore you apart...

Sometimes I feel like the last cookie in the cookie jar; broken and alone.